DaveFromChicago

To Franci003: I have tried perhaps 30 different supplements, vitamins, etc. with unfortunately no perceptible effect on my tinnitus.

To Franci003: Mag/Cit is used by hospitals to quicky void the patient's bowels before surgery; be warned that it could have this effect.

To Jerad: I'm using Einsteinian equations that will enable me to get unstuck in time and find a parallel reality where this does not exist.

To TWA: You must have the fortitude of a Greek God to be doing all this while having this condition; you're certainly stronger than I am.

To Jerad: Or like a blue jay that, after having flown into a hornet's nest is alive but stung so much that it is utterly paralyzed.

What Good Firday means to me: Tinnitus is a never ending trudge up Golgotha.

Very smart, Jerad: A lady on this Forum said, "I'm not committing suicide; tinnitus is slowly killing me, like any other terminal illness."

Tinnitus is like that hideous creature in the first "Alien" movie. No matter what the crew did, they could not eject it from the Space Ship.

The worst aspect of this is that it's chronic intrusiveness eliminates your previous sense of security that you had taken for granted.

This condition mentally fractures you in places that will never quite return to their pre-tinnitus status even if the tinnitus disappeared.

To Charburchar: Don't upbraid yourself; for the last 8 years this condition has hugely abraded my temper; my wife has warned me about this.

To Danish Girl: The stress from this feels as if I am always exhausted from an unbearable, fearful hyperalertness than I cannot neutralize.

ToBarry098: Absolutely. Another way to look at this is from "King Lear": "We are as flies to the Gods; they kill us for their sport."

Three days of skull-clenching Migraines, tea-kettle blasting tinnitus, my IRA being erased by the Stock Market Implosion; Ain't we got fun?

To AfroSnowman: Without doubt the singularly most important question to be asked; or, will Sisyphus always be with us?

What did the Buddhist say to theHot Dog Vendor: Make me One With Everything.

Could it be that since Michael Leigh uses so many aliases he is in fact actually Jastroboff himself? is that why he so firecely defends TRT?

To Damocles: Mr. J seems to be over 70 years old (Phd' in 1973). If he has been an Academic Star then why is TRT hardly used anywhere.

To Lurius: I have had the same mammoth fluctuations lately; I would rather have one steady tone than quietude followed by such an upheavel.

To Luris: Those throttling fulctuations resemble the torture techniqies employed by the Chinese on American POWS during the Korean War.

When you're angry, you're just a character in someone else's story. But when you let your anger go, you reclaim your own story as yourself.

To IntotheBlue03: I've been walking around in this panicked state every day for 8 years. Is it possible to habituate to a state of insanity?

To danielthor: There is a brilliant new translation of Camus's novel "The Plague", which elaborates on your quote and on the Will to Endure.

To Lurius: Mine also has been worse this week. Maybe it's due to the roller coaster barometric pressure changes from all the winter storms.

After sleeping or napping from 5 minutes to 8 hours results in very loud Tinnitus spikes. At first I thought maybe it was the position of my head & neck. But that theory is not accurate as I have fallen asleep practically sitting straight up in my lounge chair and it’s the same results. It does go down to its everyday volume anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours. Hate it!

To GCS: Napping has always exploded my tinnitus (and I have no idea why); I will have a mega cup of Instant Coffee to avoid any sort of nap.

Thanks very much, Convolution, for that optimistic report on Dr. Shore; this is about the only thread of real hope I am taking seriously.

Will Dr. Shore's device actually be available to us by this time next year? Will it be more effective than Lenire?

To Brian P: Last night was not as nightmarish as Thanksgiving, but still an ordeal; I think it is aggravated by this freakish warm weather.

Hopefully the in laws don’t cause a spike that will make you void your spiced ham into the toilet!